Per la strade di Alamagna con e senza Machiavelli: viaggio, scrittura e motivazione in Francesco Vettori
Author(s)
Grazzini, Filippo
Date Issued
2008
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Book chapter
Abstract
Travel mates play a relevant role in the act of travelling, both in terms of physical engagement in crossing unfamiliar space and the decoding of it. Francesco Vettori, representing the Republic of Florence, began his diplomatic mission to Emperor Maximilian I in 1507 with no assistants, to be joined by Niccolò Machiavelli in January 1508. Vettori's "Viaggio in Alamagna" provides a travel account as long as a series of microtales and anecdotes, so as the book can be inserted in the Italian novellistica tradition. Machiavelli, a strong personality if compared to Vettori and in his turn the author of the "Ritratto delle cose della Magna", is not mentioned in the "Viaggio", probably not without a reason. As Nicolai Rubinstein indicated, when Vettori began writing the Viaggio not only had he read the first of Machiavelli's "Ritratto", he had even copied it. When the composition of the Viaggio proceded, Vettori probably felt that Machiavelli, having belonged to a political party not corresponding to Vettori's, and politically isolated later, was unfit to be mentioned in the book. That is also why the "Viaggio" was interrupted and unpublished during Vettori's life.
Citation
F. Grazzini, 'Per la strade di Alamagna con e senza Machiavelli: viaggio, scrittura e motivazione in Francesco Vettori' in V. De Caprio, Compagni di viaggio, Settecittà, Viterbo 2008, pp. 13-38
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